Month: June 2014

Varnish + Nginx in comparison with Nginx alone, which is better?

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Like others, I confused with the combine of Varnish + Nginx and Nginx alone on my server. But since I optimized new server with only Nginx, FastCGI Cache, Memcache. I’ve found a lot of talk about using Nginx with Varnish or not around the Internet. Isn’t Nginx enough?

The Quick Answer: I choosed Nginx alone without Varnish because I’ve found Varnish ~5% faster for small static files than Nginx but I will have to spend more time to maintaining and configuring it to works as I experct. It is not worth my effort!
This arctile will explain the reason that I don’t use Varnish with Nginx like Apache before.

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How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Size of WordPress Installation

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In Cloud Hosting Generation, you don’t care about the web hosting storage like some years back. But it’s note mean you don’t really care about WordPress size that included total files size and database size. Too large WordPress total file size is most backup and restore known issues. Trust me, it’s hard to store and manage large amounts of data. In some previous posts, I’ve mentioned about the ways to backup, clean and optimize WordPress database then in this post, we will talking about How to Lose Weight and Reduce the Size of WordPress by reduce images file size, remove bloat files, delete unused plugins or themes…

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FREE File of the month - June 2014 on ThemeFores, CodeCanyon, VideoHive, GraphicRiver

FREE File of the month – June 2014 on ThemeForest, CodeCanyon

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From start of the every month, Envato always brings free premium files for us, it’s called “Free File of The Month”. These files can range from free WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, HTML templates, scripts, images, videos, sound files and much more. Who does not like free stuff? My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest.
And June 2014 is no different the Envato marketplace again are offering new awesome collections of free premium files from different marketplace in one place.
This offer is for registered members only. All you have to do is create an account from one of the market places and you get access to all Envato Marketplaces.
They’re available from the April Fool’s Day until midnight on the the end of April, 2014 (AEDT).
Grab them while you can!

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